The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil, Volumen8J.S. Skinner & Son, 1856 |
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Página 388 - If a teacher, though a genins, would attempt to "prove all things and hold fast to that which is good," he would keep on all through life proving things and would have no time to
Página 374 - Who knoweth the spirit of a man that goeth upward, and the spirit of a beast that goeth downward to the earth...
Página 390 - ... purveys and ministers to the higher mystery of thought Heaped up in your granaries this week, the next it will strike in the stalwart arm, and glow in the blushing cheek, and flash in the beaming eye ; — till we learn at last to realize that the slender stalk, which we have seen shaken by the summer breeze, bending in the cornfield under the yellow burden of harvest, is indeed the
Página 517 - Edw. 6, c. 14, to be the buying or contracting for any merchandise or victual coming in the way to market; or dissuading persons from, bringing their goods or provisions there ; or persuading them to enhance the price, when there : any of which practices make the market dearer to the fair trader.
Página 619 - Committee, appointed in 1854, "to consider the cheapest, most expeditious, and most efficient mode of providing small arms for Her Majesty's service.
Página 388 - My discovery, sir, is nothing short of this, that we have no need to go or send to California for gold, inasmuch as we have gold diggings on this side of the continent much more productive, and consequently much more valuable, than theirs. I do not of course refer to the mines of North Carolina or Georgia, which have been worked with some success for several years, but which, compared with those of California, are of no great moment.
Página 388 - Then, sir, this gold of ours not only exceeds the California in the annual yield of the diggings, but in several other respects. It certainly requires labor, but not nearly as much labor to get it out. Our diggings may be depended on with far greater confidence, for the average yield on a given superfices.
Página 95 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 108 - Then spread a little straw on the bottom of a boiler, on which place the bottles with straw between them, until the boiler contains a sufficient quantity. Fill it up with cold water, heat the water, and as soon as it begins to boil draw the fire, and let the whole gradually cool.
Página 677 - West Indies, is to convert the fibres of vegetables into pulp, without having recourse to the process of separating the fibrous matter from the other component parts of vegetable substances ; and to effect this object, he adopts means for simultaneously or in one process reducing the fibres to pulp, and separating the pulp from the gummy and other vegetable matters with which they are combined. The vegetable substances to which the process is applicable, are the plants known as the plantain, the...